11) What sort of conflicts has anti-German criticism caused within the German left? How acrimonious (or, for that matter, violent) have these rifts become?

12) What are some trends (i.e., in history, in society, within Germany or continental Europe or the Middle East) that concern anti-German thinking?

13) What is the possibility of the anti-Germans dividing on what seems to be their two basic points of agreement, solidarity with Israel and solidarity against Germany?

Answers given by the group sinistra! from Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
sinistra! holds a homepage under the address www.copyriot.com/sinistra or www.sinistra.tk and can be contacted by e-mail via sinistra[AT]gmx.li

As there doesn‘t exist any formal organizational structure it is impossible to speak of “the” anti-Germans as a homogeneous movement.

Historically anti-German theory is a radicalization of anti-national theory. Already in the course of WW1 the later communist leader Karl Liebknecht strongly opposed the growing national mood and the erosion of internationalism in the German (and European) social-democracy stating “Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land” (the most dangerous enemy is to be found in your own country). But such views remained minoritarian. A kind of (inter)nationalism, which does not question the concept of nation states as such – if it is not a kind of nationalism itself – remained dominant in the German left for a long time.

Neither did anti-nationalism become a coherent theory nor a broader movement until the late eighties or early nineties when the traditional anti-imperialists were criticized by a post-modern, Foucault inspired left for defending a concept of people (‘volk’) as an almost biological identity instead of deconstructing it. Besides, it became obvious that the national liberation movements around the world (e.g. IRA, ETA, PKK, …) did no longer (if ever) fight for socialism but for purely nationalistic motives only.

The xenophobic outbursts and the growing nationalism after the German “reunification” in 1990 made the simplified old-school-left distinction between a progressive working-class versus a reactionary upper-class more and more ridiculous. Those burning down the homes of refugees, waving German flags and shouting fascist slogans were for the most part members of the working-class. The dark shadows of the German past became more and more threatening and a new and accurate study of German history – that is to say German national socialism – was an obvious consequence for some in the German left. It became clear that an emancipatorical left cannot rely on the German working-classes but must stand in opposition to the vast majority in this country; a majority who advocates racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, a majority with a deep authoritarian disposition and a majority that did not change too much since their parents or grandparents committed the most horrible crime in mankind’s history: the mass murder of six million European Jews. In this crime, that is symbolized by the name of the death camp Auschwitz, the anti-Germans recognize the ultimate break with the basic rules of a civilized society: Colonialism, imperialism and wars were linked with massacres and all kinds of atrocities, but followed a certain rational calculation, the instrumental rationality of capitalism, that seeks – in general – to preserve its reproductive basis, i.e. those to be exploited, what limits the brutality and institutionalized violence in a capitalist society to a certain extent.

Up to now, only the Germans managed to install a mass-murderous ideology – racial antisemitism – as a program that was to be realized by a cooperation of mob and elite, by a fusion of total state, capital and work(ers). This project not only theoretically labeled ‘the Jew’ as the head of an international conspiracy of capitalist and communist forces against the ‘Aryan race’, as a ‘negative principle’, in contradiction to the harmony of the German ‘volksgemeinschaft’, but tried to put this madness to practice: The Germans hunted for every Jew throughout Europe – old or young, rich or poor, left or right, atheist or orthodox – and shot or gassed every Jew they captured. It was even planned to eradicate all Jews worldwide – the ideology of annihilation fully triumphed over any economic, political or military logic.

Against the ignorance of an alienated world that not only created Auschwitz but also a mentality of people that, instead of intervening, looked on as their neighbours were being murdered in the gas-chambers, Theodor W. Adorno formulated a new categorical imperative: It demands that everything has to be done, so that Auschwitz or anything similar may never happen again. But as long as there exist the concepts of state, capital, nation and a specific coldness of the modern subject, i.e. the social foundations that made Auschwitz possible, we can never be sure that such an insane mass murder will not happen again.

Especially this fact made a re-formulation of anti-national theory necessary. Even though nationalism, racism and antisemitism are universal phenomena, to be found to a certain extent everywhere in the world, it is undeniable that they became nowhere else as murderous as in Germany. So when anti-national means the abolishment of all nation-states, anti-German means that all nation-states should be abolished, but Germany – the origin of an unprecedented mass-murder – should be the first and Israel as the refuge of the surviving victims of German atrocities the last nation-state to vanish (and should decide for itself).

In this sense solidarity with Israel does not mean commenting on the concrete politics of the state of Israel or its representatives, though Israel – as each other state, too – is formed by the interest of its national capital, practices exploitation of the Israeli proletarians and is structured by racist segregation. But anti-German criticism has to emphasize that Israel is not to be treated as any other “normal” nation-state, as it is the only spot on earth, where those who are still subject to anti-Semitic attacks on a daily basis can defend themselves effectively. Auschwitz, where no-one stood by the Jews to prevent their eradication – neither the crematoria nor the railway tracks to the death camps were bombed – proved the necessity of this institution of Jewish political emancipation with a strong military arm to guarantee its existence. In these days Israel’s right to exist is not only denied openly by neo-nazis and islamistic fanatics but also in an indirect way by anti-Israeli governments in the West and a left who is camouflaging its obvious anti-Semitism as “anti-Zionism”.

The position towards the United States is pretty much disputed within the anti-German movement. All anti-Germans have in common to denounce anti-Americanism though. Anti-Americanism has been a constitutive factor of the German society after World War 2. Similar stereotypes seem to be working in the left as well as in the right. So anti-Germans are making it a point to break with this tradition of thinking.

But there are major differences within the anti-German movement concerning this issue. While it is common sense to make mention of the American role in World War 2 and the fact that the people in the concentration camps were freed by the allied powers and not by the German left, as often as necessary, some anti-German groups (often referred to as “hardcore anti-Germans”, although this term might be quite misleading) made it a point to celebrate every single move in American foreign politics in the past and present. Instead of just giving the US credit for the major role they’ve played in defeating Nazi-Germany in World War 2 and thereby putting an end to the holocaust, these groups are drawing close similarities between WW 2 and the “War on Terror”. By this they are putting the reactionary and anti-Semitic regimes in the so called Islamic world on one level with the Nazis. This is not only a serious minimization of the nazi era and the holocaust, but also a violation of the (radicalized) categorical imperative of Karl Liebknecht, that the main enemy is one’s “own country”. These anti-Germans see themselves on the side of civilization and declare Islam their main target instead of Germany.

In contrast to this position, we see our mission not in a form of policy that tries to advise the one or the other government what they should do, but in a sort of radical criticism of the basic forms of capitalist society. Anti-Americanism in this sense is a paradoxical product of capitalism: though conservative, left- and right wing-forces in Germany see themselves as ‘anti-capitalist’ and maintain to reject ‘commerce’, ‘money-culture’ or ‘casino-capitalism’, tendencies which they suppose to be culminating in the USA, they tend on the other side to bind themselves through this mode of superficial criticism stronger to a form of ‘good’ and ‘social’ European capitalism. Communist criticism should, instead of staring at phenomena like ‘Hollywood’ or ‘McDonald’s’ and propagating a ‘not-so-decadent-capitalism’, attack the roots of the capitalist society: the mode of production that commodifies every aspect of our lives under the merciless rule of the value.

Of course we do cooperate with antifascist, feminist and anti-racist groups. For us all forms of discrimination and prejudice must be confronted likewise: Racism, antisemitism, sexism and homophobia contradict any idea of a better society and as long as any one of the above mentioned ideologies exist it will be impossible to speak of emancipation.

As past and present of the American society differ from the circumstances in Germany, we are aware of the fact that the people in the USA who are interested in general emancipation stick to another position than the anti-Germans. Yet we think that there can not only be some kind of mutual learning, but also in some areas a practical cooperation. As the USA is still an important partner in terms of economy and military, it is able to establish a kind of political pressure on German government. The press campaigns against German enterprises like BMW and BASF during the latest round of negotiations about compensations for slave labor during national socialism showed that there can be a positive effect if this pressure is applied in a reasonable manner. Although the result was in the end quite poor and most of the former slave laborers have been left unpaid, this example could be nevertheless a paradigm for future campaigns of the American left against German politics.

Freakuency is a new decentralized radio online in a testing level which is started after long discussions , little steps of development , searching for resources , sharing skills. We are definitely convinced that was the right way to start a radio project. A horizontal way with all of us participating in a beautiful decentralized process with one purpose: starting a new online radio project collective related to electronic music interests.

Our project is open to new contributions and ideas , the only thing you have to do is to send us an open letter to our email address , describing your ideas. If you re willing to do it we will be glad to reply to you as soon as possible. The day schedule of our radio is an open process for discussion , with our collective discussing every new idea and possibility. So feel free to share your ideas with us

This is a request to participate in Demonstration against squatting prohibition in Utrecht(24.10.2009) and Squatting Action Days in the Netherlands (30.10-01.11.2009).

To all the people who are against squatting prohibition,
to all the squatters living in the Netherlands and abroad,
special request to all spanish, polish and italian squatters living in the Netherlands (you are many, but few of you are active),
to all ex-squatters,
to all young people who would like to become squatters in the future,
to all the friends of the squatters,
to all political activists,
to all antifascist activists,
to all artists who create art and/or perform in the squats,
to all bandmembers and DJ’s that play in the squats,
to all partypeople and teknofreaks who enjoy parties and concerts in the squats,
to all travellers who visit and stay in the squats,
to all of you who are not mentioned above.

As you probably know dark days are coming for the squatting movement in the Netherlands. On 15.10.2009 the Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber of the dutch parliament) voted for a squatting prohibition. Please remember this would not have happened without the support of racist and xenophobic politicians as Rita Verdonk and Geert Wilders. From 1st January 2010 squatting will be illegal in the Netherlands. If you would like to try to occupy an empty building, you will be considered a criminal and punished by dutch authorities. Penalties are very high and range from one year up to two years of prison!

This is very serious threat! Don‘t let politicians destroy our squatting movement! We can‘t wait! We must act now!

The future of the dutch squatting movement is in our hands. It is a big responsibility as well. We should show respect to those previous squatting generations who made squatting possible in the Netherlands. They sacrified a lot of time and energy for us. We should think about all the youth who would like to have the possibility to live in squats in the future.

It is possible that we have very nice neighbours, but please remember that most of them won‘t struggle for our houses.

Mass media and politicians say that we are few, but our spirit is stronger then this rotten and unhumane law that politicians have created! We should show politicians and police forces our determination in the defence of our rights for housing.

Mass media and politicains say that we are violent, but those christians from CDU (Christian Democratic Party), CU (Christian Union) and SGP (Orthodox Protestant Party) are violent. For them empty buildings are more important than human beings searching for a house. Those christians decided that police will come to arrest us, if we try to occupy a house after 31st December 2009.

We hear some of the squatters say “we will move out of the Netherlands”. others say “we are afraid to participate in actions and demonstrations, because it is not pleasant to be arrested”. Please don‘t give this satisfaction to politicians, they are very glad to hear it. Especially our “favourites” like Rita Verdonk and Geert Wilders.

We should be proud of who we are and defend our rights to occupy empty buildings. Don‘t give up without struggle! Some of you remember those proud and angry youth from Kopenhagen who were fighting for Ungdomshuset and dignity. Some of you probably have joined the struggle. We should bring the spirit of youth from Denmark and Greece to the streets of the Netherlands!

Politicians did not leave us another choice! From 1st January we have to choose between being homeless or criminals. This choice is not suitable for us! We won‘t live on the streets or in the prison! We are human beings and we deserve respect!

For many of us to be a squatter is way of life. A lot of us spent the best times living in the squats. We had unforgettable adventures together. We have plenty of invaluable experiences, like living in self-organized communities or housing collectives. Many of us met their boyfriends, girlfriends and their best friends in the squats. Others had a lot of fun on countless squat parties. Yet another reason to struggle against squatting prohibition.

Last Thursday the Dutch parliament has passed a new law making squatting a felony. Only the senate still has to vote on it’s passing now. However, with a rightwing majority, odds are effectively january 1st all squats in the Netherlands will be up for eviction. This will mark the end of an era, a carte blanche for the destruction of our social centers and infrastructure. Not to mention the criminalisation of thousands of people suffering from the housing shortage, for whom squatting has always been a legal means of acquiring a roof over their heads. An occupation of parliament square during the voting ended with riot cops charging into the tent camp and arresting about one hundred people.

Photo’s can be seen on http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62251.shtml (during the day) and http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62308.shtml (the eviction).

Saturday, october 24th a demonstration is planned in Utrecht, followed by decentralised action days from october 30th till november 1st.
We call upon your solidarity, be it at the demonstration or at the many Dutch embassies and consulates. Show them we are everywhere, be creative, show your dissent!

for sleeping places during the demonstration and action days, mail kraakverbod@puscii.nl

http://indymediacall.blogspot.com/2009/09/freedom-not-fear-2009.html
On Saturday, 12 September 2009, civil liberties activists in many countries again took it to the streets under the motto „Freedom not Fear – Stop the Surveillance Mania“. It was the second time these activities took place after the first international action day on 11 October 2008.
The biggest event was held in Berlin, where more than 25 000 people marched through the streets and applauded the speeches and the bands. Frank Bsirske, chairman of the world’s largest trade union ver.di, called for a comprehensive law for employee and workplace privacy protection. Patrick Breyer from the working Group against Data Retention (AK Vorrat), which again had initiated the protests, reminded participants of the democratic rallies and events of 1847 and 1989 and called for continuous resistance against the surveillance state. Other speakers included Franziska Heine from the Working Group against Censorship (AK Zensur), who had organized the most successful online petition ever to the German parliament against a recent German law that permits blocking of web sites by the federal police. The event sent a strong signal to the political parties and was widely reported in the context of the upcoming German federal election. At the end of the demonstration, activists from EDRi member Chaos Computer Club were able to film a police assault on a peaceful participant. Public pressure as a result of this has now led to an announcement of the Berlin police that all officers will get mandatory name badges in early 2010.
Other activities took place in Bulgaria, Finland, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. Activists had organized a plethora of events, including a full week of activities in Prague; demonstrations in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Sofia; public teach-inns in Skopje (co-organized by EDRi member Metamorphosis), Milano, and Helsinki (co-organized by EDRi member EFFi); privacy parties and film screenings, and much more. Activists in Vienna (from EDRi member Vibe.at) reported such big interest from the population that they had to print 1000 more leaflets on the same day.
Outside of Europe, privacy activists in Guatemala joined the action day this year with a reading event from a new volume of fiction stories about surveillance, titled „stop the surveillance mania“.

This year’s Pride Parade in Budapest was calm and rather boring, as fewer people showed up compared to the previous year. Indeed, Pride Parade 2008 was rather violent with neo-nazis and average observers, apparently homophobes, throwing eggs, tomatoes and bottles into the participants of Pride Parade 2008.
>> By the way, this violence is caused by the government headed by ex-prime minister Gyrcsany as before 2007 and 2008 the Pride Parade was peaceful and boring for the media. < <

The only positive thing about 2008 Pride was high attention of the media and increased security (Not all cops are bastards after all) this year. Not only Andrassy avenue, where the Parade took place this year, but also parallel streets were closed and surrounded by fences. Basically, a big part of central Budapest including metro was closed.
>> The right to free assembly is a basic constitutional right. But in gulyas democracy of Hungary this right has to be protected by hundreds of policemen and rows of fences. <<

Crowds of people were to be observed outside the fences, apparently not as many as previous year. Moreover, this day was a football match between Hungary and Sweden and most probably most hooligans were already at the stadium by the end of the Parade. The Parade participants turned out to be hard nuts for those willing to attack them, as police was escorting them even after the end of the Parade at Deak sq. and Blaha Lujza sq., as all the participants were recommended to go to Blaha Lujza by metro.
This decision was based on previous year’s accident when at the end of Pride Parade it turned out that the participants were trapped because most of neo-nazis gathered at the end point of the Pride 2008, Heroes’ sq.

To the Pride 2009 itself: there were a number of groups and individual people from both Hungary and abroad. The opening speeches were delivered by Juris Lavrikovs, Paata Sabelashvili (ILGA Europe) who welcomed the participants and shared tehir thoughts of the importance of the Pride. There were two cars with sound systems, a froup of people carrying a rainbow flag, and a number of smaller groups including Amnesty-Hungary (the yellow group) and the pink-black bloc.
Overall, it was just another good opportunity for queer people to claim for their right for equality and for their supporters to express their solidarity. Hopefully, the peacefulness of Pride Parade 2009 will become a good tradition and the tolerance in Hungarian society to queer people will grow to the level that no fences will be needed in the future.

The yearly Fuckparade was taking place again in Berlin on August 22. The gathering point was Revaler Strasse, where the 17 trucks were warming up for the parade. A part of this warm up were also the obligatory speeches. For this, the Fuckparade organisers invited Hans Cousto and Dr. Motte, whose talks can be seen here. They deserve some attention, especially what Motte had to say.

Hans Cousto (who speaks first on the clip), is an author who published books on subjects such as “Cosmic Octave – Origin of Harmony” or “MDMA Tuning”. His angle is the same I criticised a couple of years ago in a praxis newsletter: The state is asked not to sell off its property to people who want to extract value out of “our” party culture, meaning “capitalists in other parts of the world”. He pleads that for a lively culture there is need for free spaces available to all. Fine, but to lobby the state to provide these spaces is pretty naive to say the least. In our opinion it’s politically objectionable – but all this is nothing new and would not be worth mentioning here if it wasn’t for Dr. Motte’s elaborations that follow on the clip at 4:20.
Dr. Motte is the founder of the Loveparade and a techno musician. Ironically the Fuckparade once upon a time set out to counter the commercialism and conformism of the Loveparade. When Motte himself lost control of the (now defunct) Loveparade, he started taking part of the Fuckparade.
He’s worth quoting:
After introducing himself he says: “I want to briefly sum up how I would like to define our electronic life culture. In a Nazi book about symbols I have read something great! You have to imagine – it was about runes!” He then not only describes the man rune, he also puts down the microphone and impersonates it streching out his hands and then says “it means something very beautiful, unfortunately” the peace movement turned it upside down and made it into something “greedy”, because the original man rune means something like creative development in freedom, according to Dr. Motte (or his “Nazi book”), and “this is the expression of our electronic music, and our politicians should please preserve our freedom and not sell it to property fonds who don’t care because this is our coutry, our country!!” After shouting the last words, and some applause by the Fuckparade audience, he continues: “It doesn’t belong to them but to us all, and I demand from all politicians also our mayor with his bad, gay politics that no one needs, to champion our ideals, our free spaces (…) for our free culture, not the culture of the empire from above”.
This tour de force took less than three minutes, but raises a number of questions. How can he link what he calls “our electronic life culture” to a “Nazi book” about runes? What does he mean with the “bad, gay politics that no one needs” of Berlin’s mayor Klaus Wowereit (who is openly gay)?
The second point was picked up by the mainstream press (Der Tagesspiegel from August 27-08-09), and Motte “apologized” to the mayor saying that “as an Anarchist” he respects the freedom of everybody else, including sexual freedom. But what did he mean? “The neoliberal politics” of the mayor is the answer. Gay = neoliberal?
The use of the word “gay” as “something bad” should not be tolerated at a supposedly left wing event that the Fuckparade purports to be. At least this time the statement became controversial at all – because it was not the first time he made it: At an anti-gentrification demo (Megaspree) on July 11 of this year he also went on about the “gay politics” of the gay mayor – on his own blog he still quotes himself saying it. Only now that he’s “found out” he “apologizes” (how serious he is about it is illustrated by the fact that his statement from the July 11 demo is still on his own website which suggests that the “apology” is just a PR exercise in damage control).
But even worse – and not picked up by the mainstream press – is that he explicitly bases his definition of “our electronic life culture” on Nazi esotericism – and was not challenged at the Fuckparade itself about this.
There has been very different kinds of research into the history and meaning of runes. This is not the place to go into it, but it is worth noting that the rune “research” of the Nazis is largely based on Guido von List, a charlatan who claimed to have received his rune wisdom in visions, author of “Das Geheimnis der Runen” (Secrets of the Runes) from 1908. I am no expert in the field but it appears that List’s Runology is practically completely made up to fit his völkisch-nationalist ideology. Via other far right esotericists such as Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Karl Maria Wiligut this became the basis for the Nazi interpretation of runes. Although we don’t know which book exactly Dr. Motte is referring to, we have to assume (since it’s a “Nazi book”) that it reflects the völkisch-racist and anti-semitic ideology of the mentioned authors.
Other enthusiasts for the man rune include Death In June who use it in the header of their web site as well as on the cover of their album “The Wörld Thät Sümmer”.
At least the Fuckparade realized they had to distance themselves clearly from Dr. Motte and did so on their web site on Sept. 1.

The book of the Antony D’ Andrea who makes the blog Global raver known also as Techno Tony )

globalraver
About the Book

Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises.

Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations, however, unfold under neo-liberal regimes that appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption.

In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies. By introducing the concept of ‘neo-nomadism’, this new theorization overcomes some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization.

This book is an essential reference for researchers and students of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies, as well as Tourism, Lifestyle Migration, Subculture, Rave/Club, and New Age studies

These are just a few of the topics covered:

- Aesthetics of the self: post-sexualities in a digital age
- Counterculture and commodity
- Hippie scenes: autonomy and tourism
- Club scene in Ibiza: underground and industry
- Ethnography of the largest nightclub in the world
- Psytrance scene in Goa
- Nomadic spirituality in psychedelic rituals
- Global Countercultures

You can find Global Nomads at main online booksellers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eBay, Borders etc), you can click on the link on the right side of this blog, or you can obtain it directly from Routledge website:
http://www.routledge.com/books/Global-Nomads-isbn9780415553674

The War Against the Jews
Why the global public is turning against Israel during the economic crisis

The political reactions to the war in Gaza show that the more threatening the military situation for Israel becomes, the less friends it has. A tectonic shift in the balance of forces is occurring. It was always the case that the Middle East conflict was not just a limited scuffle between regional interests, but rather an exemplary and ideologically loaded proxy conflict. In the era of the Cold War, the conflict between Israel and Palestine was regarded as a paradigm for the antagonism between western imperialism under the leadership of the USA and an “anti-imperialist camp” for whose leadership China and Russia competed. The propaganda of both sides ignored the double character of the state of Israel, which on the one hand was a normal state within the framework of the world market, and on the other hand was an answer by Jews to the eliminatory ideology of exclusion of European and particularly German anti-Semitism. Israel was subsumed to a geopolitical constellation into which it could not be completely absorbed.

After the collapse of state socialism and the “national liberation movements” that had formulated a program of “belated development” on the basis of the world market, the character of this proxy conflict was altered fundamentally. In place of the secular developmental regime emerged so-called Islamism, which only ostensibly operates as a traditional religious movement. In fact, it is a postmodern culturalist crisis-ideology of a part of the long since westernized elites in the Islamic countries, who represent the authoritarian potential of the postmodern and who have imbibed the completely non-Islamic ideology of European anti-Semitism. The segments of capital in the region that had failed on the world market declared the war against the Jews to be an exemplary struggle against western dominance. Conversely, western crisis-imperialism, with the USA at its head, made Islamism its new main enemy, after pampering it during the Cold War and providing it with weapons.

This new constellation led to ideological dislocations of unexpected proportions. Neoliberalism, with its capitalist war of world order against the “failed states” of crisis-prone regions and in the Middle East, appeared to identify with Israel. Since then, neo-fascist currents throughout the world have lined up with the anti-semitic Islamist “resistance struggle”, even while simultaneously fomenting racist sentiments against immigrants from Islamic countries. A large part of the global left also began to unconditionally transfer the glorification of the old “anti-imperialism” to Islamic movements and regimes. This can only be described as an act of ideological neglect, since Islamism is opposed to everything for which the left ever stood: it persecutes Marxist thought with merciless oppression and torture, it punishes homosexuality with the death penalty, and treats women as second-class people. Traditional religion is also not responsible for this; rather, it is the result of a capitalist patriarchy in crisis, which can also be felt in other ways in the west. The unholy alliance of the “socialist” caudillismo of Hugo Chavez with Islamism merely constitutes a geopolitical confirmation of this ideological degeneration, which does not contain any emancipatory perspective.

Since the historically unparalleled financial crash in Autumn of 2008, the global constellation is turning once more. Now it becomes clear that the collapse of state socialism and the national developmental regimes was only the surfacing of a giant crisis of the world market. Neoliberalism is in ruins, and the capitalist wars of world order are no longer financially viable. In this situation, it becomes clear that Israel was never anything more than a pawn on the chessboard of global crisis-imperialism. Already the Bush administration had trivialized the Iranian atomic program. The interests of Israel and the USA are diverging: Obama no longer has any political-military room for maneuver. The Islamic war against the Jews is being accepted. For that reason, the missile attack by Hamas against Israeli civilians appears insignificant; the global public overwhelmingly describes Israel’s counter-attack as “disproportionate”. The Palestinians in Gaza are equated as victims with Hamas, as if this government had not prevailed in a bloody civil war with the secular Fatah.

Thus the Islamic propaganda concerning a massacre against civilians falls on fertile soil. In fact, Hamas – just like the Lebanese Hezbollah in 2006 – has taken the civilian population hostage, while it converts Mosques into weapons caches and allows its cadres to open fire from schools and hospitals. Global opinion overlooks this, since it has already recognized Hamas as a “force for order” within the social crisis. For this reason, capitalist pragmatism, reaching as far as the liberal bourgeois press, is increasingly turning against Israel’s self-defense. This is actually the secret of the neo-statist turn during the crash of the global economy: the impoverished masses should be pacified in an authoritarian manner; and for that even Islamism is acceptable, provided it has democratic legitimacy. And a left that no longer has any socialist aims, and gloats about the postmodern “loss of all certainties” threatens to be absorbed into the authoritarian crisis management and accept the Islamic war against the Jews as ideological flanking. The proxy conflict has achieved an ideological dimension of global proportions. Against the ideological mainstream, it must be maintained that the elimination of Hamas and Hezbollah is an elementary condition not only for a precarious capitalist peace in Palestine, but also for an improvement in the social conditions. If the chances for this are bad, then the chances are good for global society’s descent into barbarism. [emphasis mine, DSZ]

Jews – Pigs – Murderers may you have a bad day and rot and die. May Gaza cover you in a shroud. May you become embalmed mummies and bury yourselves in the depths of the money pyramids you create. From ancient times … it was allowed for Jews to have only three professions: to be shroffs in the street, to be clowns and actors in the streets and collect garbage in the streets. All the same today… And I explain myself: Jews control all the banks in the american empire, control all of the Show Biz which is in able jewish hands and continue collecting all kind of garbage and owning all garbage like the museums. Loan sharks, circus performers and garbage collectors they have been for all their lives but lately they have gained a new profitable profession: that of murderers of children and women with chadors.

The Zionist metastatic cancer gobbles everything around it and feeds itself on flesh of bombed children.

It doesn’t have to rhyme: Jews – Pigs – Murderers.

The same thing is the violence of 26 self designed meager rockets with the atomic arsenal of Israel…

…both (Iraq and Iran) shall be razed to the ground so that the nazi zionists can play golf…

It doesn’t have to rhyme, Jews – Pigs – Murderers. I am going to say it even though the collaborators of the Left and the old farts of politically correctness claim that there are also good jews … and it isn’t right to put them all in the same sack.

The palestinians are being finished in Gaza but whatever the american jewish militarists may be doing, they are doomed because jewish families make only 1-2 children while muslims make 8-12. Nazi zionists you will die never getting fucked.

Tzimis Panousis – Trojan Sound, Jan 5th 2008

This is the transcription of the salient points of the radio show of Jimmy Panousis, a daily broadcast in City 99,5FM, owned by Theodore and Yiannna Angelopoulos, (ie a mainstream radio), which you can hear yourselves here. It concerns only the January 5th show but I presume from other posts that it was not the only one.

It is not often that I have the chance to hear a person which is considered progressive and anti-racist, (by his own proclamation), to talk in such crystal clear terms on what he believes on the Jews. His terms may have been a bit coloured but, damn it!, this is what we like about Panousis, (he has a long history of controversy with the Greek Church and he enjoys a wide popularity over his songs with bold, anarchic lyrics). Jimmy Panousis expressed the feelings of many Greeks, both on the Left and the Right – Christians and Atheists, on what me and all of the Jews really are: loan sharks, passionate on cultural garbage, controlling the show biz, filthy rich and standing on pyramids of money in the banks we control; satanic murderers, a reincarnation of the nazis. In the end he wishes for the breed of hebrew murderers to extinguish, in a peaceful manner I must admit. And for all of this there was no need for Zionism but it has been the timeless historical character of the Jewish people.

Let’s not forget that the slogan of the show: “Jews – Pigs – Murderers” is not an invention of Jimmy Panousis but neonazi Chrissi Avghi and far-Left NAR were the first ones to use it. It is not often that one can find the same harmony of opinions in the Left and Right. Jimmy Panousis unites us all!

In Berlin, some thousand people gathered to squat the shut down innercity airport Tempelhof last saturday, 20th of june 2009. The event was understood as a major action against the gentrification (a political term used to denounce the process of refurbishment of houses and displacement of poorer people from the inner city districts) of the area. Local government plans to establish a park and some upper class houses, together with some kind of new media district.

It was prepared in a way that different kinds of participation would be possible: going in with force (opening the fence), going in when force has been used by others, or only diverting the security forces.

During the day people were walking around the airport, people with backpacks were checked, police was everywhere at the fence. Clowns were arrested for diverting cops and going towards barriers, some people were arrested for throwing flower seeds over the fence. Some black block people tried to tear down the fence with ropes and grapnels. Bystanders didn‘t divert the cops, so the black block were hindered from action immediately as cops showed up. First failed attempt.

In another area one person on bike was catched by a plain clothes cop (allegedly during an attempt to cut a hole). As the person lay on the floor black block persons ran to the situation and the cop showed his pistol (with opening towards ground).

Later the day there were two big manifestations announced. The crowd was to split up and make the attempt to go in. The split up was failing due to coordination flaws. In the southern gathering point 2 of the 3 colours to follow were not visible. So everybody went in one mass. Police lines were broken through by just running through them. Some people from the south mass went to the fence to open it. The big mass stayed with the music on the street and didn‘t support them. Second failed attempt.

Now street parties were everywhere (a bit away from the fence) and black block gathered for a riot on the northern street outside of the airfield. Nothing more happened, police had the whole situation under control and no one got near the fence.

The local government couldn‘t just open the field, since the ownership is still split, so reformist appeals towards them were irrelevant. The interesting factor would have been if the local people could be mobilized against the fence that stands for government control of the space. The symbolic content of this action would have been to intervene in the decision making process about one of the biggest inner city open areas in europe. So the constant talking about how hard the police acted and the scandalization of the fact that the police showed a gun to the black block just diverts from the fact that this mobilization failed. It failed because the participants thought they were right with their demands and that they have the legal right to participate in the decision making process, and now feel being treated in an injust way. But this right would in any ways be something that is not existing, because it is only existing in the way of plebiscites that are not officially binding for the local government. Tearing down the fence would have been an symbolic act of direct democracy in the normality of capitalist city development.